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One weekday morning about a decade ago, I was at St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Fifth Avenue in New York City, waiting in line to go to confession. My...
“Trump offers hush money for votes,” by Adam Zyglis, via Cagle Cartoons.
Cartoonist’s Take: September 13, 2026
Q. My 2016 Honda Accord has the four-cylinder engine and 112,000 miles on it. The car is throwing a P0420 code, catalyst efficiency below threshold....
“Let me just finish this.” It is a reasonable thing to say. We have work to complete, messages to answer and responsibilities that do not...
A new analysis in the Wall Street Journal offers striking evidence that, for all his problems, President Donald Trump has delivered economic benefits...
Donald Trump has repeatedly argued — without evidence of any kind — that the 2020 election was rigged against him. Now he’s trying to rig the...
I fully intended to stay calm. This was the kind of low-stakes errand that didn’t have to set my emotions aflame. I was committed to returning a set...
After writing a history column for several decades, I often get asked why I like history. Well, because I’m human. No other species has the concept...
Cartoonist’s Take: September 12, 2026
Cartoonist’s Take: September 11, 2026
Gloria Steinem, who died last week at the age of 92, was the face of modern feminism who labored for decades to garner rights, protections, and...
Cartoonist’s Take: September 10, 2026
Why is four-year college tuition so high in America? William Bennett, President Reagan’s secretary of education, offered his hypothesis in 1987. In...
Cartoonist’s Take: September 9, 2026
Students across our communities are back in the classroom this week, reminding families to focus on what matters most: making sure their children...
Every lawyer who passed the bar (and some who didn’t) have an opinion on the Lindsay Clancy trial. I have an opinion, too, and it’s about as...
A beaming smile comes from a man on a thin mattress on the floor. He looks malnourished. And I know he’s dying because he’s at a Missionaries of...
Cartoonist’s Take: September 8, 2026
So, it was a war for oil after all. On social media Friday, President Trump announced that the United States and Venezuela have struck an agreement...
As part of Donald Trump’s trade war with Canada that the administration claims isn’t a trade war, the president has signed an executive order,...
Cartoonist’s Take: September 7, 2026
Scott Thomsen is a fourth-generation Nebraska farmer and loyal Republican who supported Donald Trump in all three of his presidential campaigns. But...
Cartoonist’s Take: September 6, 2026
This coming week, children across New York head back to school for a new year of learning and growing. Unfortunately, for far too many children, a new...
Q. I own a 2016 Subaru Outback 3.6R with 76,000 miles. For the past few months, I’ve occasionally experienced an unpredictable thump while stopped...
Over the last year or so, President Donald Trump has sometimes pointed to Vice President JD Vance as his preference for the 2028 Republican...
“Everybody wondered where you were,” my husband mused as he moved around the kitchen. Taking laps from the stove to the refrigerator and then to...
Few people born in Troy, New York, have led a life as remarkable or as dramatic as Lilian Warren Price (1854–1909), better known to history as Lily,...
Cartoonist’s Take: September 5, 2026
From now on, far-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos will have to promote his fringe conspiracies and racial controversies in Great Britain after...
Cartoonist’s Take: September 4, 2026
Not that Don McLean asked me, but I was born too late to “recall what was revealed the day the music died.” The terrorist plane crashes of...
September has arrived, which means autumn is here. It couldn’t come soon enough. Politics all day long You see, a 2026 Change Research survey finds...
Cartoonist’s Take: September 3, 2026
Republican President George W. Bush’s stupid war in Iraq (launched on false premises and bogus promises) triggered a blue tsunami in the 2006...
The diagnosis was not a surprise – well, yes it was, because like many men with a health issue we try to deny it, or delay treatment when everyone...
Don’t look now, but we seem to have a moral panic on our hands. The term moral panic, at least as a social science concept, is relatively modern. It...
Almost a week later, the world is still mourning Dolly Parton, who sold more than 100 million records and whose songwriting power and iron-handed...
“Trump renames Lake Ontario to Lake America” by Rick McKee, CagleCartoons.com.
I did not think it was possible for people to have more spare time than I do, but I was proven wrong by the existence of the West Windsor Shade Tree...
I recently came across a cocktail napkin bearing this wonderfully honest sentence: “I am not arguing. I am just explaining why I am right.” It is...
Q. My daughter’s 2018 Dodge Durango parking brake doesn’t work. When the parking brake pedal is depressed, it goes down to the car floor with no...
As I rummaged through the half-dozen dust-covered boxes, I began to lose confidence in my memory. “I’m sure it was here,” I silently assured...
Cartoonist’s Take: Saturday, August 29, 2026
As President Donald Trump escalated his trade war with Canada, Prime Minister Mark Carney responded with a direct and damning comment: “We’ve...
There has been a lot of commentary on the differences between Resistance 1.0, the effort by anti-Trump activists to bring down President Donald Trump...
Every summer, thousands of visitors descend upon Saratoga Springs for one reason above all others: horse racing. The excitement of the racing season...
Cartoonist’s Take: August 28, 2026
If you’re like me, the larger-than-life Dolly Parton has intersected numerous phases of your story. My awareness of Dolly goes back nearly 60 years....
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